Georges Mouton

Georges Mouton (21 February 1770-27 November 1838) was a Marshal of France during the Napoleonic Wars. Mouton was made Count of Lobau by Napoleon in 1810, and infamously crushed the June Rebellion in Paris in 1832.

Biography
Mouton was born in Phalsburg, Lorraine, in 1770. In 1792 he joined the French revolutionary army and by 1800 he made the rank of Colonel after serving in the early campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. In 1805 he was made Brigadier-General of the French Empire under Napoleon, and made a name for himself at the Battle of Jena-Auerstadt in 1806 and the 1809 Battle of Aspern-Essling. Mouton was made Count of Lobau in 1810 in recognition of his services in the latter battle, and fought in Russia and Europe under Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr in 1812-1813. He was captured in the siege of Dresden after the defeat at the Battle of Leipzig and was a prisoner of the Austrian Empire for the rest of the Napoleonic Wars. In 1815 he fought for Napoleon again at the Battle of Ligny and Battle of Waterloo and held Placenoit against Prussia after the latter.

After the Second Restoration in 1815, Mouton was exiled until 1818. Becoming a member of the House of Representatives, Mouton was made General of the National Guard in 1830 after the July Revolution in France. In 1831, Mouton was promoted to Marshal of France, and he was charged with suppressing rebellions against the new regime by republicans and Bourbon monarchists.

Mouton was in charge of the National Guard at the time of the 1832 June Rebellion by revolutionary students who wanted to create a republic. Mouton brutally crushed the rebellion, killing 800 people. In 1834 he crushed another republican revolt, and he died in 1838.